After making some assumptions about the value of job safety, Mr. Hamermesh found that the increased risk of injury between high-paying and low-paying work had significantly compounded wage inequality.

The state's job growth has been primarily low-paying work in the service sector, he said.

"You have a computer or you are without one; you are trained for the digital future or you are in dead-end, low-paying work."

In its latest edition, the dictionary defines the term McJob as "low-paying and dead-end work".

But the people are mostly poor, and there are few jobs available other than low-paying work on farms and in the fast-food restaurants along Main Street.

Gaines directed Kurtzman to his brother, David, who gave him some low-paying work on Lucky Fights it Through, a two-fisted cowboy story with an educational health message.

A particularly attractive job offer comes in a village where she finds low-paying but steady work weaving hammocks.

Despite high unemployment, veteran Israelis and new immigrants from the former Soviet Union are no more eager than, say, Germans to do back-breaking, low-paying work.

Without it, some women found low-paying work.

She found low-paying work in a factory that manufactured dishrags.